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Chrome to support Multiple Profiles/ Identities

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48 pointsjdavid11 comments

Wonderful news!

I may be pointing out the obvious here, but judging by this move and the turning of the options page into a browser page[1], it seems that they want as much similarity between Chrome-OS and Chrome-the-Browser as possible.

Which is certainly great for both Developers and also Users who want consistency (read: all of them).

[1] For those not using Chrome dev version, the first screenshot on the page, Chrome's options, doesn't look like that anymore, instead its the in-browser page chrome://settings/, like Chrome-OS has.

That os x UI design is pretty bad. If you do it only in the menu like suggested there, you have to make a window active to actually see what profile is associated with it.

agreed, but since it still early, why don't you mock up something better and submit it.

I'm happy for you folks in Kirkland. This feature was done for windows pre-release, and glad it got polished enough to ship.

Given how terrible all the various Google web apps have been at supporting multiple accounts, this feature will be a godsend! Finally I can be logged in to Google with my personal account in one window, and Google apps for domains with my work account in another window, and not be denied access to my docs all the damn time.

thank god. this was one of the missing features that currently helps keep me tied to firefox.

What are the other missing features?

it's actually been a while since i tried chrome, so for all i know, the things that held me back before, are available now. i know that before i sorely missed some of my FF extensions. when i get home this evening, i'll take another look and see how it compares now. if i'm still not satisfied, i'll follow up here with a list.

so, as promised, here are things i'm still having issues with in Chrome:

  no script
  session management
  tab management
  auto-discovery for RSS feeds
  user-scripts
  password hasher
  https everywhere

for several of these, there are extensions available, but either they don't measure up the FF version, or there are several different extensions that i'll have to wade through before i can make any kind of judgement as to whether they're any good.

The whole javascript-or-NSAPI dilemma for writing extensions in Chrome is a bit of a drag. There is a PRETTY BIG gap between those two APIs.

Mozilla opens more of its guts via XUL and XPCOM than does Chrome, which is probably why toys like Live-Headers and Firebug offer more functionality than one finds in the Developer Tools Console.

My EUR0.02.

I'm not the GP, but there's just no comparable addons to Pentadactyl and Tree Style Tab. There's addons that try to do so, but Chrome doesn't seem to offer enough flexibility in their addons to do so.

Last time I tried vimium (I think that was it...), they definitely had the "scroll around by keyboard and use hint numbers/letters" down, but Pentadactyl can control pretty much the entire browser. Similarly, The vertical tabs option has nowhere near the functionality of Tree Style Tabs, with the obvious missing functionality being hierarchy and collapsing of trees.

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